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From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

A two-way chairlift system between Zugliget and the highest point in the city.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

This public park collects signposts and other memorabilia related to local history, Polish-German relations and human progress

How did this desert wind up in the middle of a Polish forest?

Seven dragon statues—including one that breathes real fire—are scattered throughout the streets of Krakow.

The original stone marking the interwar border between Germany and Poland sits in this unassuming village park.

A group of tiny bears has occupied various spots across Warsaw's Bemowo district.

Several 12th-century ruins can be found inside this historical market.

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

A Soviet era flat that refused to conform to the dull gray standards.

A tribute to the first human in space.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

Remnants from a time before electricity.

A mysterious concrete hand reaches out from between the stones of Uniwersytecki bridge.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

This ex-prison dates back to the Middle Ages.

These plaques found across Warsaw commemorate the sites where executions or battles took place during the German occupation.